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GESSORIACUM

Volume 9 · 73 words · 1810 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a port and station for ships of the Morini in Belgica. In Caesar's time, according to Dio, there was no town; but Florus speaks of it as one; and the Gefforiacenses Muri are mentioned by Eumenius in his panegyric. The author of Tabula Theodofiana, commonly called Peutinger's map, says expressly, that Gefforiacum was in his time called Bononia. Now Boulogne in Picardy. E. Long. 1. 30. N. Lat. 50. 40.